Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inch long, which are kept in thick lead boxes; or in a solution, in bottles encased in lead. Because radium is continually breaking down, its emanations must be pumped out of the bottles every 24 hours. The gas thus pumped off is sealed in containers, used in radiotherapy for treatment of cancer. But Dr. Kaplan believes best results are obtained from pack treatment, that the best pack is made from radium element. The minimum quantity for a proper pack treatment is five grams ($350,000). Until last year there were only six grams in possession of the New York Department...
...people convalescing from infantile paralysis was not especially valuable in preventing the disease in others. Said he: "We found that the percentage of cases which developed the paralytic symptoms was about the same as in the cases in which the serum was not used. No harm resulted from the treatment. But it was apparent that no benefits resulted...
Said Dr. Whitman: "All these patients are entitled at least to a chance of relief. In favorable cases surgical treatment may entirely mask the effects of the disease. In worse cases it may enable the patient to discard apparatus. In the worst cases it can hold out the possibility of independent locomotion. . . . Only a very small number need expect to look, feel, or act like a cripple...
...unjustly, subordinated to others. When whole periods of literature are summarized in an occasional lecture, the effect on the mind is that of a confused and unrelated mass of dates and names. Although it is advisable to show the relation between history, art, and literature, each deserves individual treatment which would be treated in a more profound manner...
...momentarily doubled that the players fail to grasp the opportunities afforded by the script. The characterizations were on the whole indicative of able direction, diligent work, plus a manner of treatment which would not be mis-placed on the most cosmopolitan of stages. Rosemary McHugh and Harry Hutchinson convinced in difficult pats, while John F. Joyce, as Charles Lamb, breathed vital breath into his historical model...